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Welcome to
The 2006 Charlotte's Other Quilt Club Featuring Thimbleberries Fabrics.
March Mini-Quilt
Lori Smith’s
VASE OF FLOWERS mini quilt.
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Start with 8 fat quarters included in this month's
shipment.
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Follow the pattern on page
2 of TWENTY LITTLE FAT QUARTER
QUILTS. Use the solid, non-printed side of the
darkest green fabric as the background for your appliqué.
Cut slightly larger, as suggested in the pattern.
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The
appliqué pattern is found further back in the
pattern. Use your favorite method of appliqué -
paper-backed fusible web, needle-turn, or [my personal
favorite - see below] faced with fusible interfacing.
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Use
the tiny floral print with black background for the binding.
I made
bias binding, but one could use
straight cut on the cross-grain. Either way, this takes just about
1/2 of a fat
quarter.
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This quilt consists of 7-1/2"
blocks and measures approx. 72" x 89" when
finished. Designed and copyrighted by Lori Smith.
After making the
16" x 20" mini-quilt, there will be enough fabric
to make some 7-1/2" blocks each month. You may choose to
receive more fabric each month**, insuring you can make 7
blocks monthly and complete the fabulous sampler quilt
pictured above in just 12 months.
Picture of
Charlotte's VASE OF FLOWERS in Thimbleberries fabrics.
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MONTHLY we will make a SMALL QUILT,
16" x 20" using these fat quarters. We will be using patterns designed
and copyrighted by Lori Smith.
See SLIDE SHOW
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Appliqué with fusible
interfacing -
You may be familiar with this method as it was made popular by Eleanor Burns.
Recently, QuiltSmartTM has taken this concept and applied it to lots of
traditional quilt patterns simplifying their construction by using printed
interfacing. Check out all
of the QuiltSmartTM products in our web store. For this project I used charcoal Fusiform
Lightweight interfacing from HTC. Let us know if you
would like some. It is $2/yard. For light colored
backgrounds I use Pellon's white 911FF fusible
interfacing. Let us know if you would like this.
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Trace appliqué
shapes onto non-fusible side of interfacing.
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Place fusible side
on top of right side of fabric.
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With sewing
machine, stitch around appliqué shape, using small stitch
length. This can be done free-motion. I like
to use a finer thread like Mettler's 40wt machine
embroidery thread. Again, let us know if you would
like some of this.
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Trim close to
stitching, clipping in to curves.
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Cut slit in center
of interfacing. Turn right side out.
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Finger press or use
an iron and a Teflon pressing sheet on shape's edges.
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Press to background
fabric. Fusible interfacing will create a temporary
hold.
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Appliqué stitch by
hand or machine, attaching shapes to background
fabric. I used Sew Art smoke nylon thread and a tiny
blind-hem stitch on the machine. You can also use a
tiny (narrow but not too short) zig-zag stitch.
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March Extra Blocks
Use QUILT BLOCK SAMPLER #0802,
left over fabrics and extra Option 2 fat quarters
Grape Basket - pg 3
Mosaic - pg 4
Surely Ellen - pg 10
California Sunset - pg 12
[Click here for "tips" page.]
Basket #2 - pg 13
Indian Puzzle - pg 16
Mother's Fancy Star - pg 21
Appliqué shapes are found on
the back side of page 23.
Paper piecing foundations are
found on page 25.
[Check back periodically to see
what other "tips" I add to help with these blocks.]
Click
here for the January 9-Patch page.
Click here for
PDF of this page
which will print better than web page.
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ORGANIZATIONAL TIPS:
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Try keeping track of the
blocks made each month on the quilt diagram found on page
2.
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Insert all pages from both
patterns into clear plastic sleeve protectors and store in a
3-ring binder.
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Print and save parts of
these web pages and the .pdf pages and store in the
notebook. (Not necessary, as I do not plan on removing these
pages from the web site until well after we've finished this
year.)
Other tips? Please share!
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